On October 4, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were unavailable for several hours, leaving people around the world in a social media frenzy! Those who actively use networking platforms have quickly ventured to other outlets like Twitter, TikTok, and Snapchat to air their grievances, find digital human connection, and poke fun at Facebook, Inc.
People were coming in with the memes, tweets, and content that kept everyone afloat until Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp came back online.
hello literally everyone
—Twitter (@Twitter) October 4, 2021
https://twitter.com/JohnnySibilly/status/1445098172422889489?s=20
Instagram and Facebook should go down every day. I haven’t been this productive since 2006.
– BenDeLaCreme (@bendelacreme) October 4, 2021
Well… that explains it all. #facebookdown #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/aHjcMljiVM
— MrDaveLopez (He/Him/El) (@davidlopez85) October 4, 2021
I cried because I had no shoes then I met a man whose birthday was the day Facebook crashed 😢🎂
—Danny Zuker (@DannyZuker) October 5, 2021
Twitter right now as WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook crash #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/I4hS5RRFr8
— ✞ (@itsjustdeny) October 4, 2021
@mrdavelopez Facebook and Instagram went down today and everyone went crazy! #facebook #instagram #facebookdown #instagramdown #kardashians #kimkardashian
♬ original sound – David Lopez
Faithful @Twitter users today #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/ngcFVYVsCT
—E! News (@enews) October 4, 2021
And while some pondered the meaning of life when their reason for existing had been broken down for so many hours, others thrived and wondered if their social media ties could be cut more easily than they are. thought.
A recent study by cybersecurity experts from VPNOverview.com analyzed which social media platforms Americans would most likely be willing to take down.
Instagram ranked first among social media accounts Americans would be most likely to delete, with half a million searches for “how to delete an Instagram account” every month, or 6.6 million a year.
Facebook came in second as the most popular social media account people want to delete, with “How to delete a Facebook account” receiving over 201,000 searches per month.
Snapchat is next, with 135,000 monthly searches for people looking to delete their accounts.
Twitter, TikTok and LinkedIn also topped the list.
Perhaps the recent outage has increased some of these numbers.
Here is the list of the top 7 social media accounts that Americans want to delete:
But what really went wrong with the Facebook outage? According to Facebookit was a updating Facebook’s routers coordinating network traffic went wrong, causing a wave of disruptions in its systems. As a result, everything related to Facebook was immediately shut down, worldwide.
So after being away from Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for a day, can you survive without them?
Which social networks could you delete from your life?
Source: VPNOverview.com , NPR
